Day 9 - Visit La Comandancia de la Plata; drive to Santiago de Cuba

A convoy of jeeps carry us up a steep ashphalted road to El Alto de Naranjo at 950mts.











From this trailhead we walk 3km (6km return) through virgin rainforest to La Comandancia de La Plata where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara took refuge after an unsuccessful uprising against the Cuban dictator Batista on 2nd December, 1956.

This mountain hideaway became the revolutionaries’ headquarters until Batista fled Cuba in 1959. 

After lunch we drive directly inland towards the lively former Cuban capital of Santiago.